I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

Just the PM of Canada quoting Havel's most famous essay about how individuals and communities can join together, despite the overwhelming odds, and defeat a totalitarian empire.

The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries. prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...

Willamette Week just published an article about the ICE story along with a brief interview In August of 2020, WWeek took a chance on me and gave my first news byline, and I'll always be tremendously grateful to them for it. It's a strange full circle moment for me and I'd like to share it:

So help them. Defund and then abolish ICE. Impeach Noem. They need your help more than your words.

As it happens though, the framers of the US constitution did say it: in the 4th amendment, the 5th, the 10th, etc. What they didn’t provide for is federal immigration enforcement of any kind, only “a uniform rule of naturalization.” Nor did they give the federal government a plenary police power.

@socio-steve.bsky.social @rooseveltinstitute.org has a good explainer--see below--on Social Security's finances. For more background (shameless plug) also check out www.epi.org/publication/...

This is all — all of it — downstream of malapportionment in democratic systems. The world over, most people vote with their feet by moving to big multicultural cities. And the left-behind rural populations — in big, empty, and declining constituencies — use their vote to complain about it.

No federal judge has the power or authority to make DOJ comply with the mandatory provisions of the Epstein Act, says Pam Bondi. It's unenforceable and meaningless. Essentially, DOJ is a lawless if not criminal enterprise, not a law enforcement agency, at this point.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away. Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

it actions like this that make people, especially gen z, despise the democratic party. what are we doing here

got a text from my landlord; he is ok with us posting any of these signs. check in with yours!

This week in the USA: * DHS Sec posts Nazi phrase * ICE shoots driver point blank * Fed Chair reveals Trump blackmail * FBI raids reporter’s home * Trump bullies Nobel Peace Prize winner to get award * Trump says power only limited by “own morality” * Epstein files not released

Pharmacy Times: 'Economic Instability Heightens Risk of Pediatric Long COVID' 'Food insecurity and social instability significantly increase long COVID risk in children, highlighting the need for targeted public health interventions' www.pharmacytimes.com/view/economi...

New: Defense Contractor CEO Pours $4 Million Into Pro-Trump PAC me, for @forbes.com 1/

Yes, voting against ICE funding is the morally right thing to do. But you can be the most heartless political consultant bastard out there - cutting ICE is still the smart play. That Schumer/Jeffries are silent right now is political malpractice (and morally reprehensible, if you care about that).

New poll from Navigator also with an incredible result; the largest drop in support for ICE since June was actually among *Republicans*, 25% of which now say they have an unfavorable opinion of the agency.

This dude is intense and correct

They (the feds) are not stopping:

There's no evidence so far that he can make it actually work, but these ARE the guys who forged electoral college votes. And Trump clearly thought he could just call Republicans in Georgia and get the results changed. He didn't make it work in his first term. But people are bending more often now.

Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"

A man who praises Hitler, says all migrants are criminals, & that "all Black people are foreign" continues to be an ICE prosecutor. To say this system is rotten to the core is a dramatic understatement. As always great reporting by @stevanzetti.bsky.social for the indefatigable @texasobserver.org

Polls show that only 12% of Americans support President Trump’s plan to seize Greenland. But in this CBS newsroom, that number feels much higher

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

What could Hakeem Jeffries and the Dem leadership including @whipkclark.bsky.social do? This. They could do this. This is being done against the wishes of the Dem leadership.

Oh my stars is every news anchor going to ask about civility now

This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.

holy shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

"Recording law enforcement is not illegal. It is not obstruction. It is a constitutionally-protected activity that district & appellate courts have affirmed." - @attorneynora.bsky.social @timkarr.bsky.social's latest on Pressing Issues on the right to record: pressingissues.org/recording-ic...

I am not sure who the left wing equivalent of randy fine would be, but I do know if they existed no one would put them on tv

Really can’t get over this video of more than a half dozen ICE agents forming a tactical perimeter at a suburban Minnesota Target so their commander can use the bathroom, cosplaying like they’re in Fallujah. What an absurd waste of taxpayer dollars.

It was gender.

I for one am ready for our society to see that men are too emotional to wield so much life & death power.

Hard same.

According to email documentation in the Epstein files, Bill Pulte’s grandfather allegedly worked with Jeffrey Epstein in 2004 to help broker a real estate deal by which a Russian oligarch disguised a $100 million transfer to Donald Trump.

This is what I heard checking in on friends yesterday. People are in hiding, or aren’t but are agonizing over whether they should be, or are trying to reassure terrified parents who want them to be The scale of this doesn’t seem to be known to even newshound NYC friends w/o Minneapolis connections

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The Church Committee's investigation into the crimes of the intelligence community is about as good a model as we have for the kind of investigation into the crimes of ICE and other agencies. This is really a must-read for understanding our own moment.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Hey @mikecrapo.bsky.social this is on you.

This is what Minneapolis is like right now: City staff in city uniforms are being harassed by fed immigration enforcement for being not white.

Deputies with the LASD harass family member of the people they kill, drive by memorial services to threaten their children, and destroy memorials. people.com/dhs-officer-...

So much in fear for his life that he never drops his phone or puts a second hand on his pistol. We do love our phones in this country.

Having trouble doing anything else, so had to write out how fucking angry I am about what happened yesterday and how the MAGA world is trying to rewrite the story.